Arabian Nightmare - Richard Arnot, Helen Chryssides

Advantages: Another side of the story...
Disadvantages: ...but the truth remains uncertain

...sad, avoidable, accident. Arabian Nightmare tells the other side of that story. Richard Arnot was the British surgeon who hosted the party in that second floor flat, with the fateful balcony. He lived there with his wife and two children. Richard and Penny had not had the happiest of marriages and the move to Saudi Arabia had been almost a last-ditch attempt to make it work. It was to prove a spectacularly bad idea ~ as instinctively they might ...
...the extent to which they would become embroiled in the ways and means of their temporary abode. When deciding upon the Middle East as their 'somewhere warm' to start again, they were both agreed that Saudi was too restrictive for westernised foreigners, and especially for women. Yet it was to Saudi they went. For Richard, a surgeon tempted away from the crumbling NHS to a brand new hospital, life proved not to be all he'd been led to believe, but ... Read review